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Shadow of a Doubt

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Shadow of a Doubt
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Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
Written byGordon McDonell (story)
Thornton Wilder (screenplay)
Sally Benson (screenplay)
Alma Reville (screenplay)
Produced byJack H. Skirball
StarringTeresa Wright
Joseph Cotten
Macdonald Carey
Henry Travers
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Running time
108 min.

Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 Alfred Hitchcock film noir which tells the story of a young woman who thinks that her uncle might be a serial killer. It stars Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers and Hume Cronyn.

The movie was written by Gordon McDonell, Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Alma Reville. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and filmed in Santa Rosa, California. Alfred Hitchcock often said that this was his favorite film.

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story (Gordon McDonell).

Shadow of a Doubt has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

It was remade as Step Down to Terror in 1958.